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: Legal Theory BlogReidy on Talbott on Universal Rights
By Lawrence Solum
David A. Reidy (University of Tennessee - Department of Philosophy) has posted Review of Talbott's "Which Rights Should Be Universal?" (Human Rights Review, Winter, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This review essay sets out the key features of the human rights position developed by Bill Talbott in his "Which Rights Should be Universal?". It then argues that Talbott's position is not so much an alternative to Rawls's position as it is a plausible and attractive answer to a question other than the one to which Rawls's own position on human rights is an answer.
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).
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